The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-12-24


village th. q. -sence of such house would
KEEP the eyes and ears of the curious so
constantly alert that In time the place
would have to yield its secrets, perhaps by
force, for instances have been known Of rus
tics breaking into house in the name of the
law or Judge Lynch, simply to satisfy a Curl
osity that had grown too strong to be resisted.
But II was different on the western edge Of
Manitoba, where THE Poplars" still resisted
curiosity after years OF impenetrability. i
had almost said that the house itself had
never been seen. for IL was buried in the
heart OF four sections of rolling land, in a
miniature valley; the trees and bushes on
whose sides hid IL rs completely as IL they
had been vast curtains of green cloth. But
the extent of the park around the house
would have served almost without the rank
natural greenery, especially as all was in
closed by fence that was almost a stockade
and that was adorned with the simple but
forcible, warning, "Trespassers Bewarem II
was not that the warning frightened the far
parted jewellers for the pioneers of Canada
are not Of the stuff that threat or even an
armed man frightens but all were immersed
In the struggle to make living; and as Fos-
IN hVhn'htiA III Aht Npihio .ulti ntt
intrude itself in their lives. they gave their
whole attention to their own affairs. and con-
tented themselves with adding strength TO
the wings of that gossip which had begun by
declaring Fosdyck an American fugitive, and
now credited him and his grown-up son
with being allies ola band. or perhaps bands.
of thieves who made his park station and
rendezvous in their raids across the border,
some forty miles distant. II was even whs.
pered by some that Fosdyck was counterfeit
ing American money and sending II to con-
federates In New York. What mattered II |
that those OF the suspected thieves, who |
showed themselves outside the park, looked |
and acted like gentlemen, SO long an they |
were suspected of being outlaws? What |
mattered II that the boxes Fosdyck shipped |
10 New York were labeled. "Birds-dont |
delay" and were directed To taxidermist,
so long as the neighbors agreed that
they contained counterfeit money In small
bulk hidden among the feathered game?
II was indeed mystery that 1.-THE Poplars"
held. In ten years neither the father nor
son, who kept house there without the aid of
any woman except the MISUNDERSTANDING
Indian squaw at the gate, had ever spoken 20
n SOUL III the hclknuDIhOOu uniers IL was 10
transact the business Of receiving from the
station agent all their necessaries, which
came by frcight,or sending away packages In
the same manner, or calling at the store for
their mail and ordering small purchases of
provisions when their regular supply was de-
layed-always without 80 much as passing
the time Of day or bowling when they went
In OF ont Of the store or the station. The
squaw, who dwelt by their gateway in the
only skin tepee seen in Manitoba for years
Though before the whites came and the buff
Ialo vanished there were no other sorts Of
Iepees), seldom left her post, but spent her
lays at scraping and polishing into ebon
ylossness the horns OF buffalocs picked up
On the prairie by the Fosdycks and brought
20 her. This is now the main pursuit Of the
Iquaws In that part Of Canada. The spccu-
ators are gathering these relics that once
lotted the prairie 70 send 10 the sugar refiners
II the States, but the Indians do not aid
hem, for pair Of time beaten, rough and
'lay-cQlored horns can be turned by six or
even weeks of patient labor on the part Of